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Gymnogeophagus

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Labroidei
Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Geophaginae
Genus: Gymnogeophagus
Species: G. australis - G. balzanii - G. caaguazuensis - G. che - G. gymnogenys - G. labiatus - G. lacustris - G. meridionalis - G. rhabdotus - G. setequedas - G. tiraparae

Name

Gymnogeophagus Ribeiro

References

Iván González-Bergonzoni, Marcelo Loureiro & Sebastián Oviedo, 2009, Neotropical Ichthyology 7(1): 19-24.

Gymnogeophagus is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to South America.[1]

Species

There are currently 11 described species of Gymnogeophagus.[2] [3]

* Gymnogeophagus australis (Eigenmann, 1907)
* Gymnogeophagus balzanii (Perugia, 1891)
* Gymnogeophagus caaguazuensis Staeck 2006
* Gymnogeophagus che (Casciotta, Gómez & Toresanni, 2000)
* Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys (Hensel, 1870)
* Gymnogeophagus labiatus (Hensel, 1870)
* Gymnogeophagus lacustris (Reis & Malabarba, 1988)
* Gymnogeophagus meridionalis (Reis & Malabarba, 1988)
* Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus (Hensel, 1870)
* Gymnogeophagus setequedas (Reis, Malabarba & Pavanelli, 1992)
* Gymnogeophagus tiraparae (González-Bergonzoni, Loureiro & Oviedo, 2009) (formerly known as Gymnogeophagus sp "San Borja")

References

1. ^ Eschmeyer W.. "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatsearch.html. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
2. ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors.. "Valid Species of the Genus Gymnogeophagus". FishBase. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
3. ^ Iván González-Bergonzoni, Marcelo Loureiro and Sebastián Oviedo. "A new species of Gymnogeophagus from the río Negro and río Tacuarí basins, Uruguay (Teleostei: Perciformes)". Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252009000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso. Retrieved 2010-12-26.

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